Rate My Professor Amr Soror

Amr Soror is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics. He joined the faculty in fall 2015 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the start of the 2021-2022 academic year. Prior to his appointment at CSUF, Soror was a doctoral candidate, graduate teaching assistant, and research assistant in the Information Systems Department at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, from 2010 to 2015. Earlier roles include graduate teaching assistant at Old Dominion University from 2008 to 2010 and teaching assistant at Alexandria University in 2003.

Soror holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arkansas (2015), an MBA in Information Technology and Enterprise Integration from Old Dominion University (2010), and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Alexandria University, Egypt (2003). His research specializations center on information systems, including the intention-behavior gap, self-regulation theory applied to technology-based behavior change interventions, problematic mobile phone usage and smartphone addiction, habit duality in social media use from habituation-sensitization perspectives, cognitive biases in IT use behavior, health information technology, technology adoption and resistance, and knowledge diffusion in social networks. Key publications include “Good habits gone bad: Explaining negative consequences associated with the use of mobile phones from a dual-systems perspective” (Information Systems Journal, 2015), “Why do you keep doing that? The biasing effects of mental states on IT continued usage intentions” (Computers in Human Behavior, 2017), “Diffusion of knowledge in social media networks: effects of reputation mechanisms and distribution of knowledge roles” (Information Systems Journal, 2018), “Exhaustion and Dependency: A Habituation–Sensitization Perspective on the Duality of Habit in Social Media Use” (Information Technology & People, 2022), and conference papers at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences such as “Discipline yourself before life disciplines you: Deficient self-regulation and mobile phone unregulated use” (2012). Soror teaches courses including Business Analytics I (ISDS 361A) and has received awards such as the Doctoral Academy Fellowship at the University of Arkansas (2010-2014).